While information revisions have lifted first-half development, actual numbers reveal a softening

Authorities estimates of gross domestic product for the financial third quarter have pegged development in the celebration demand-filled October-December period at 4.7%, an unique slowdown from the revised year-earlier and preceding quarters’ 5.6%and 5.1%paces respectively. Manufacturing, which contributes just under a 5th to gross value added (GVA), was the greatest drag publishing a 0.2?crease and extending the sector’s contraction into a 2nd straight quarter. Output at electrical energy and allied energy services also shrank 0.7%, showing lack of need from becalmed factories. And activity in building and construction, a generator of orders for items from cement to steel, softened worryingly to a 0.3%growth, extending the industry’s slowdown for a third consecutive quarter. However, farming and the three largest services sectors, including public administration and defence, fortified overall GVA, with farm outpu